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geelovestowrite would like to honor Edith Newbold Jones Wharton…

Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence.

Wharton had other works as well. The Greater Inclination (1899), Crucial Instances (1901), Descent of Man (1904) and her novella named, Ethan Frome (1911)-her best known, most successful piece of work. In 1915 she was also awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French government for her services during World War I.